In slow days in religion class in high school the priest in charge, in desperation, would take an exit from the script and talk to us about interesting stuff.
Here is my best remembrance of one of those slow days.
I'm 84 years old and I still remember it, so ya gotta admire that priest.
The following is a brief explanation of the Triune God of Christianity. God the Father, the omni Being (omni-present, omni-scient, omni-potent, etc.) is, always has been, and always will be.
As the ultimately intelligent of beings, self-awareness, is, always has been, and always will be one of His omni-characteristics.
That self-awareness, emanating as it does from an omni- being (-scient et al) is a separate being, and, of necessity, co-exists, has co-existed and will co-exist with its source.
That co-existing being due to its source must of necessity be co-equal and therefore also be omni-.
As these two beings have perceived, do perceive and will perceive one another, they have perceived, do perceive and will perceive perfection (one of the heretofore unlisted omnis).
That perception also is, was and will be a being co-equal … and so on.
That construct had been a mainstay for discussion on slow days in Religion class during my four years in high school.
I hadn’t expected any application of it in my real life unless someone on a quiz show had ever asked me to explain the triune god.
But at that moment in Saigon, evident in Goldhammer’s story was a practical real world application.
Generals were omni beings.
All they needed to do was conceive of something and of necessity it became fact.
And once having become fact those recently conceived things were, always had been and always would be.
Utility had no part in what occurred in the “war effort”.
It all had to do with the omni emanations from all the omni beings.
Even the number of three star generals, two star generals, one star generals, full colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors, captains, first and second lieutenants and untold hoards of enlisted men could be traced directly to this prime source.
Even the number and nature of the infinite number and variety of reports, all apparently with no meaning, could be traced to this prime source.
It was a beautifully symmetrical system once one had perceived it.
